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Whelpton, Henry David, son of Frederick David Whelpton, schoolmaster, of Melbourne, Australia, and Doris Marion Louise, d. of Edmund William Carter of Australia; b. 2 July 1922; adm. Sept. 1937 (A); left July 1939; Lieut. (A) RNVR in WW2; Downing Coll. Camb., matric. 1946, BA 1949, MA 1953; a chartered sec.; asst. sec. Chartered Inst. of Bankers 1959, dep. sec. 1964-82; m. 1955 Kathleen Bertha, d. of Bernard Shirley, industrial designer, of Leamington, Warks; d. Oct. 1990.

WHELER, THEOPHILUS, elder son of Rev. Granville Wheler, Rector of Otterden, Kent, and his first wife Lady Catherine Maria Hastings, fourth dau. of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon; b. 7 Apr 1725; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1739/40 (Bourne;s); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Jan 1741/2, matr. 1742; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jan 1742/3; d. unm. Dec 1743.

WHELER, JOHN, son of John Wheler, Evesham, Worcs.; b.; adm. 21 Jan 1772; KS (aged 13) 1772; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1776, matr. 25 Jun 1776, but resigned from his Westminster Studentship 27 Jan 1777, before being admitted, as he had married his bed maker; 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines 17 Dec 1777; 1st Lieut., 18 Aug 1779; half-pay 1 Sep 1783; tried at Old Bailey 30 Oct 1793 (as John Wheeler) for theft of watch belonging to David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (qv), from College dormitory at Westminster on 12 Oct; Wheler stated in evidence that he had found the watch in St. James’s Park and was acquitted; a witness stated that he was then in a “deplorable condition”; probably John Wheeler (spelled thus) who was found guilty of bigamy and sentenced to transportation for seven years at the Old Bailey 24 Oct 1798, then aged 38, his first marriage having been to Mary Goodall at St. James’s, Piccadilly, on 5 Dec 1776 (his surname given in register as Wheler), and his second, bigamous, marriage having been to Elizabeth Watkins at St. Bride’s, Fleet Street 22 Apr 1798.

WHEELOCK, JOHN, brother of Anthony Wheelock (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) May 1732; entered Royal Navy; Lieut., 26 Jun 1741; Cdr., 19 Feb 1756; Capt., 21 Dec 1757; served in West Indies 1762; d. 1778 (will proved PCC 20 Mar 1779).

WHEELOCK, JEFFERY, only son of Anthony Wheelock (qv); b.; adm. 21 Jun 1776; KS (aged 14) 1777; in school list Jul 1779; Cornet, 15th Dragoons 24 Sep 1779; Lieut., 29 Sep 1781; Capt., 28 May 1790; Maj., 93rd Foot 30 Oct 1793; served in Flanders 1793; d. 15 Jan 1794.

WHEELOCK, BRYAN, brother of Anthony Wheelock (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 4 Oct 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) May 1732.

WHEELOCK, ANTHONY, eldest son of Bryan Wheelock, Deputy Secretary, Board of Trade, and Steward to Anthony, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, and Frances Whitney (IGI), attendant of Countess of Shaftesbury; b.; adm. (aged 15) May 1732; left 1734; Clerk in Ordinary, Ordnance Office; Clerk of the Markets, Jamaica (Chamberlayne 1748); m.; d. 22 Apr 1781.

WHEELER, THOMAS WILLIAM OGLE, second son of Thomas Whittenbury Wheeler (qv); b. 30 Jun 1868; adm. 27 May 1880 ( R); left Jul 1887; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1887; BA 1890; adm. solicitor Feb 1894; practised in London; m. 22 Mar 1902 Ethel Violet, younger dau. of Henry W. Lowe, Walton on Thames, Surrey; d. 1945.

WHEELER, THOMAS WHITTENBURY, only son of Thomas Wheeler LLD, Holland Park Terrace, Kensington, Serjeant-at-Law, Judge of Metropolitan County Courts, and Frances, elder dau. of John Whittenbury, Ardwick, Manchester, Lancs.; b. 28 Apr 1839; adm. 16 Feb 1852; a graphic account of his tussle with the Captain of the QSS at the Rod Drawer up School is given by Sir Alfred Edward Turner (qv), Sixty Years of a Soldier’s Life, 19-20; left 1858; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1859; BA 1863; MA 1878; adm. Inner Temple 26 Apr 1861, called to bar 26 Jan 1865, Bencher 26 Jan 1894; QC Nov 1886; County Court Judge Jul 1905-18, res., successively on Circuits 35 and 38; JP Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire; m. 15 Jul 1865 Henrietta Brooksbank, youngest dau. of Edward Lodge Ogle MD MRCS, Gloucester Street, Pimlico; d. 3 Apr 1923.

WHEELER, PHILIP; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1718/9.